Nice on the new walls. Not sure I'm a fan of the gates, but I'll learn to live with it.

Should probably look like a car battery instead.

Alternative. Add a new bar up by the minimap, which expands to the left and has 6 slots. This is the only inventory place Blueprints/Books are allowed. They can still be placed as items, but if you pick them up and the slots are full they go back into your library instead of continuing to exist as a...

In my case, I almost never play the same game of Factorio. Between mods, and ore distribution, and simply wanting to use differing and not purely optimal designs, I rarely play the game the same way twice. The only things I use blueprints for are the train system, defensive emplacements, and in the ...

What we really need is to have the option from the auto-research mod (the name escapes me) which lets you filter by the available science packs. So you can have it show you red sciences, which shows all the researches that only use red. Green would show those as well, and so you can see. Okay, one o...

The problem as explained to me, is that when feeding into a chest, belts max out at being able to feed into three sides, and one out, while bots have no limits at all in their ability to access the chests. So you can have an infinite number of bots interacting with the chests.

My suggestion of two types of bots still stands. One Cargo Type that has much higher carry capacity, say 8-24 items, but is very slow. And then a second Logistics type that carries 2-4 items, but is much faster. That one that can catch up with the player, but doesn't carry a huge amount. Alternately...

I love cliffs, but I wish we didn't have Cliff Explosives. Deal with it, or go around it, problem solved. But again, some people are unpleasable.

Maybe a burrowing Spitter that can dive under the ground and be immune to guns, but still gets stopped by walls, it just means it gets closer before getting killed. But get's stopped by land mines. Finally a use for them.

The reason not to have a Truck over the cargo bots I suggested, is that bots fly, and doing so means they can get places where belts simply can't. Getting a belt in requires 3 tiles in an L shape, while a requester chest only requires 2. A truck doesn't really help that, and it's place is mostly alr...

Why not break up Logistics bots into two separate types? Logistics Delivery Bots, which are much faster than belts but only hold 1-4 items, and have a very short range before needing to recharge. These would be the bots that could catch up to the player and deliver them items, but could also move ar...

I have often exhausted myself attempting to explain mods as they relate to various games, and have come to the conclusion the best thing I can do is this: If the base game is a meal, then mods are the condiments. They are unnecessary to play the game, but are available to spice the game to your liki...

You might also want to combine Bob's Mods into the mix, because it does work well with Rampant, and gives more variety in the biters, including elemental ones as well as much tougher elemental spawners. @Koub: Think guns. Start your third research as turrets, and set them up so they cover each other...

On the one hand, it's not supposed to affect gaming at all. On the other... Go AMD.

I'm not seeing a second signal for the interior signals on the upper side to be chained off of. They're connecting to the signal on the far end past the incoming train. Which is why they're red, so the train is going through because it's already in the block.

Yup, now that they hold 1/5th as much, they need to be moved around 5x as often. Glad I never bothered barreling anything.

With the items in the slot, middle click and the blue background vanishes. Then move the items out. And to rapidly set a new filter, hover over the slot with the new item and middle-click and it'll set it straight to that. Alternately, try lifting your finger totally off the mouse before middle-clic...

I find large trains are only useful for hauling ore because of it's small stack size. And even then it's only double the size of the plate trains. (2-4 and 1-2)Though I did end up with a 3<8<3 hauling iron from a bunch of far distant deposits.

So, there's two things to consider: First, it's a lot faster to unload from a tanker, than from a cargo wagon. Not only do you have both inserters and belts moving to deal with, but then there's the time the factory takes to empty and eject the barrel. If you don't have enough space on the belt to g...

Best part about artillery, is the fact you can control where the biters are heading. Arty fires and they rush towards it, so you can make them come towards defenses that are waiting for them. Useful if you're using Train supplied Flamethrower turrets. Train arrives, offloads light oil and then the a...